Re: find doesn't find existing files

[Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> This has me perplexed:
>
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/x86_64-cygwin-threads/XML/libXML.pm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Csaba None 65K Dec  6 14:16
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/x86_64-cygwin-threads/XML/libXML.pm
>
> $ which find
> /usr/bin/find
>
> $ find  /usr/lib/perl5  -name libXML.pm
> (no output)

My first thought is if /usr/lib/perl5 is a symlink, and
/usr/lib/perl5/ would give better results...  However, try

find /usr/lib/perl5 -exec ls -l {} \;

and see what that returns.

-- Erik

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